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The Life & Career of Thomas Kyd

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The Life & Career of Thomas Kyd

  • Thomas Kyd was born in 1558. He was one of Elizabethan playwrights.
  • Kyd probably began his career as a popular playwright about 1583 and produced his most significant work, The Spanish Tragedy.
  • He translated- Torquato Tasso՚s Padre di Famiglia (1583) , published as The Householder՚s Philosophy (1588) , is the only non-dramatic work now generally attributed to Kyd; and Robert Garnier՚s Cornelia published as the same name in 1594.
  • The Spanish Tragedy was p…

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Elizabethan Sonneteers: Sonnet, Definition, Origin of Sonnet- Italian Sonnets, Elizabethan Sonnets

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Sonnet

  • The word sonnet is derived from the Italian word, Sonetto ″ . It would not be wrong to interpret it in terms of a lyric.
  • As per Hazlitt, “The great object of the sonnet seems to be to express in musical numbers … with undivided breath, some occasional thought or personal feeling” .

Definition

A sonnet may be defined as a lyric consisting of fourteen lines. It conforms to a fixed st…

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